The Space Shuttle Columbia roars through pre-dawn clouds on March 1, 2002.
(NASA)
35 YEARS AGO TODAY: On June 27, 1982, birds scatter as the Space Shuttle Columbia roars off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. (NASA)
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On October 20, 1995, the Space Shuttle Columbia roars off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, heading to orbit for a mission that lasted 15 days, 21 hours, 53 minutes, 16 seconds. (NASA)
The Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven member crew were lost 15 years ago, on February 1, 2003.
- The space shuttle orbiter Columbia is launched for the first space transportation system test mission, 04/12/1981
- Flowers and homemade signs are placed at the front gate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA), Mountain View, California (CA) in a spontaneous memorial for the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) astronauts.
- The remains of an American Astronaut are carried by the Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana (LA) Honor Guard to a waiting C-141 Starlifter for transfer to Dover AFB, Delaware (DE).
@nasa’s first Space Shuttle, Columbia and its crew of Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon were lost on February 1, 2003 when the spacecraft broke up on reentry during mission STS-107.
I can remember exactly what I was doing when this happened. The friends I was traveling with spent half the day on the phone with family that worked at the space center trying to get updates.
Hubble Space Telescope near Earth’s horizon, as seen from the Space Shuttle Columbia, March 9, 2002. (NASA)
25 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Space Shuttle Columbia blasts off from Cape Canaveral on October 22, 1992. (NASA)
March 30, 1982 – The Space Shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands, New Mexico, as two T-38 Talon chase planes keep pace with the orbiter.
April 14, 1981 – The Space Shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after completing its first orbital mission.
June 1, 2011 – Atop the gargantuan crawler-transporter, the Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its last rollout to the launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building, getting ready to fly the final mission of the space shuttle era.
(NASA)
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